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Biology unmoored : Melanesian reflections on life and biotechnology /

Biology Unmoored is an engaging examination of what it means to live in a world that is not structured in terms of biological thinking. Drawing upon three years of ethnographic research in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, Sandra Bamford describes a world in which physiological reproduction is not...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bamford, Sandra C., 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: conceptual frameworks
  • Cultural landscapes
  • Insubstantial identities
  • Embodiments of detachment
  • (Im) mortal undertakings
  • Conceiving global identities
  • Conclusion: conceptual displacements.